The magazine that gave the world E.B. White, Truman Capote and James Thurber this week gives it Del Norte.

The New Yorker has a nearly 6,500-word essay about President Trump, politics and rural Colorado that’s worth curling up with. The article by Peter Hessler explores how the sticks to the east and west of the Front Range have embraced Trump, even while the heavily populated center of the state remains as blue as Hillary Clinton’s eyes.

In its July 24 edition, The New Yorker also takes its sophisticated readership to Grand Junction:

In October, Matt Patterson, who grew up in Grand Junction but now lives in Washington, D.C., returned to his home town to serve as the Party’s regional field director for the Presidential campaign. He lasted for four days. This was shortly after the “Access Hollywood” tape was leaked, and Patterson’s first act as field director was to propose that the Party hold a Women for Trump rally. But the county chairman refused. “His exact words were, ‘That’s picking a fight we can’t win,’ ” Patterson told me.  He quit the campaign and organized the rally on his own. In his estimation, most Republicans would find Trump’s comments repugnant, but they would be even more resentful of the coastal media that was pushing the story.

The Women for Trump rally was a local turning point. More than a hundred people showed up, and it galvanized a group of activists.

Hessler explains how the vast number of counties in Colorado supported Trump, but Denver and Boulder, which he calls Colorado’s New York and California, sealed up the win for Clington.

“Donald Trump lost those two counties by two hundred and seventy-three thousand votes, and he won the rest of the state by a hundred and forty thousand votes,” Steve House, the former chair of the state Republican Party, told Hessler. “That means that most of Colorado, in my mind, is a conservative state.”

Too bad for Republicans that wide-open spaces can’t vote.